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"Elderly people will be treated like second-class citizens and denied medical care under new UN targets which give priority to saving the lives of young people. The NHS could be led to discriminate against the over 70s to meet ‘highly unethical’ UN health targets which seek to reduce premature deaths in younger people, senior medics have warned. Under the proposed Sustainable Development Goals, UN member states will be given targets to cut the number of deaths from diseases like cancer, stroke, diabetes and dementia by one third by 2030. However because many are age-related illnesses people who succumb to those diseases from the age of 70 are not deemed to have died prematurely and so are not included in the target...If the target was met, around 42,000 lives would be saved each year for the under 70s. However if older people were included in the target an extra 130,000 lives would be saved. "
The UK article then goes on to say there is already age discrimination in surgery and cancer care.
Now, it could be that this new thing is normal UN posturing where they set some lofty goals and countries just ignore them so, it's nothing to get excited about. They have zero enforcement clout...unless some country's leader gives it to them.
It could also make a heck of an election issue seeing as how older people vote in large numbers and the UN's plans will materialize by the end of this year.
So who should have priority for an organ transplant a ninety five year old or a twenty year old?
20 year olds aren't dying with any regularity because 95 year olds are taking all the organs. They are dying regularly because they become an organ donor.
Bow the knee, lefties. Sarah Palin owns you people.
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